Husband Jailed For Life After Killing His Wife And Man He Lured From Fetish Website

A Virginia man who killed his wife successful an elaborate double murder crippled truthful that he could beryllium pinch his family’s Brazilian au brace has been sentenced to life successful situation without parole.

Brendan Banfield, a erstwhile IRS rule enforcement officer, was convicted of murdering his wife, Christine Banfield, and Joseph Ryan, a man he lured to his location arsenic portion of nan plot.

He claimed he came crossed Ryan attacking his wife connected nan greeting of Feb. 24, 2023.

But prosecutors based on that Brendan Banfield and au brace Juliana Peres Magalhães group Ryan up successful a strategy to get free of Banfield’s wife, a pediatric intensive attraction nurse.

In summation to murder, jurors successful February convicted Banfield of kid endangerment because nan couple’s 4-year-old girl was location during nan killings.

At sentencing, Judge Penney Azcarate called Banfield’s actions evil and calculated.

“The disregard of nan life of your wife, personification you supposedly loved, is almost unfathomable,” she said.

She said nan strategy progressive “luring a wholly guiltless man into your deadly trap; continuing connected aft nan murders without a care; and not erstwhile — not erstwhile — reasoning of nan impact” connected nan Banfields' 4-year-old daughter.

Brendan Banfield “took everything from her,” Azcarate said.

During Banfield's trial, Magalhães testified that he had told her he wanted to wed her and person children pinch her, but he needed to “get free of” his woman first.

He didn’t want a divorcement because “she would person much money than he would” and because he wanted custody of nan couple’s daughter, said Magalhães, who was 21 erstwhile she started moving for nan Banfields successful 2021.

Magalhães told jurors that she and Brendan Banfield had impersonated Christine Banfield connected a website for intersexual fetishes. They utilized nan tract to lure Ryan to nan location successful Herndon, Virginia, for a intersexual brushwood involving a weapon and staged nan segment to look arsenic though they had changeable a convulsive intruder.

Magalhães testified that connected nan time of nan killings, she waited successful a car extracurricular nan location pinch nan Banfields' child. When Ryan arrived, she called Brendan Banfield, who was waiting astatine a adjacent McDonald's.

The brace took nan kid to nan basement and past went to nan bedroom, wherever they encountered Ryan. Brendan Banfield changeable Ryan and past stabbed Christine Banfield pinch nan weapon Ryan had brought. When Magalhães saw Ryan moving, she fired a 2nd changeable that killed him.

Magalhães pleaded blameworthy to manslaughter aft agreeing to attest against Brendan Banfield. Magalhães was sentenced to 10 years successful situation aft Banfield's trial.